On Oct 25, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Gert Doering wrote: […]
Since both of the listed authors of the current RIPE document regarding IPv6 assignments to IXPs are reading this list :-) - Timothy and Leo, could you briefly comment how you remember the intent of the policy?
My memory of the intention was that the exchange should be open to new members who could meet a set of technical requirements documented in a corporate policy. The kind of requirements we anticipated were things like: - 24/7 NOC - Assigned a unique AS Number - Assigned or allocated address space - Routing policy published in an IRR database It was not intended that the requirements be onerous. The goal was to make sure that membership was available to network operators in general rather than being available to an elite clique. HTH, Leo Vegoda